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May 13, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
Ubuntu Means ... Open Source...
May 12, 2008
Dynamics of Cats
toys NASA Ames is getting some new big iron...
Deep Sea News
The Submersible Synopses: NR-1 NR-1 is the navy's smallest nuclear-powered and only nuclear-powered research submarine. Launched in 1969, th 145' NR-1 (known affectionately as Nerwin) was designed for deep submergence work on the seabed ranging from recovery, repair, implantation, and observation. Given its...
A Blog Around The Clock
Open Access to Scholarly Publications (video) Open Access to Scholarly Publications (Updated May 10, 2008) from Sean Kass on Vimeo. by Sean Kass (Via)....
A Blog Around The Clock
Removing the Bricks from the Classroom Walls: Interview with David Warlick David Warlick is a local blogger and educator. We first met at the Podcastercon a couple of years ago, then at several blogger meetups, and finally last January at the second Science Blogging Conference where David moderated a session on...
The Daily Transcript
The Age of Scarcity? As the world population rises and the standard of living in the developing world increases, the capability to cloth, feed and provide energy through non-renewable resources will inevitably diminish.
Gene Expression
Powerset ...is live. Don't know what I'm talking about? Natural language search; people have been talking about this as the Next Big Thing for a while.... (though I will say, if people have been talking about something, it isn't likely to...
Greg Laden's Blog
Greg Laden's Blog
May 11, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language You should check out xkcd every now and then for a laugh....
Respectful Insolence
Comcast: Cap bandwith? Charge by usage? What a novel concept, as long as it doesn't turn into gouge by usage.
Greg Laden's Blog
May 10, 2008
The Quantum Pontiff
Video Games for Science Science is full of hard problems. One hard problem is protein folding. Indeed vast amounts of computer power have been thrown at this problem. So one wouldn't think that the computer we've got sitting on top of our body would...
Greg Laden's Blog
May 9, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
Behold The Newest Math Coprocessor Hat Tip Reed...
Framing Science
The Evidence For and Against a Limbaugh Vote? Influence at the margins...
Greg Laden's Blog
May 8, 2008
The Intersection
Buy Carl Zimmer's Book. Now. Look, folks. It's this simple. Carl Zimmer is one of our very best science writers. If not the absolute best bar none. So if you like reading about science, go buy his newest, Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science...
Science To Life
TechPedia Atlanta I recently started writing for a new website called TechPedia Atlanta which will launch in Summer 2008. TechPedia Atlanta is a wiki-style site that will let anyone create or edit encyclopedic entries about the Atlanta technology scene. I like...
Developing Intelligence
The Digital Resolution of the Mind: Discrete Precision in Working Memory Does the resolution or precision of human memory change with its available capacity? In other words, can you remember fewer items with greater precision than you can remember more items? Contradicting intuition, a new paper from yesterday's issue of Nature...
Greg Laden's Blog
May 7, 2008
Good Math, Bad Math
Linear Programming In my last post on game theory, I said that you could find an optimal probabilistic grand strategy for any two-player, simultaneous move, zero-sum game. It's done through something called linear programming. But linear programming is useful for a...
Developing Intelligence
Modeling the Diffusion of Information In Brain and Behavior Complex cognition can be predicted by remarkably simple tasks. For example, the speed with which you choose one of two possible responses can reliably predict IQ. Some theories propose that this relationship is due to differences in something called "processing...
Uncertain Principles
Put Down the Laser Pointer For all the ranting people do about the evils of PowerPoint, it seems to me that people are missing the one bit of technology that is most responsible for incomprehensible presentations in science: the laser pointer. Having watched a bunch...
Greg Laden's Blog
“People with IQs at or above 160 are too busy propelling civilization forward to care what a cadre of geeks thinks about which operating system is the best.” agnostic on How to help people find their love of Linux
